- Nov 07, 2020
Defeat Quotes
Words on loss, setback, and resilience
These defeat quotes acknowledge how much a loss can hurt, whether on a personal scale or a much larger one. Several speak plainly about the pain of setbacks and what it takes to face them honestly.
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- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yet, history has shown that if material force can defeat some ideologies it can no longer obliterate a civilization without destabilizing the whole planet.
- Doubt
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- Nov 07, 2020
One can't doubt that the American objective in Iraq has failed - different plans have to be made. And the kernel here is the acknowledgement of defeat.
- Hurts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every defeat hurts.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no meeting of minds, no point of understanding with such terror. Just a choice: Defeat it or be defeated by it. And defeat it we must.
- Enemy
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is not a field of a few acres of ground, but a cause, that we are defending, and whether we defeat the enemy in one battle, or by degrees, the consequences will be the same.
- Question
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- Nov 07, 2020
The question the electorate asks is: 'What can you do for us? Are you just using us to defeat somebody because you have a personal grievance?'
- Glory
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- Nov 07, 2020
Defeat furnishes good material to the poets and the artists, but none of us care to have the glory of the conquered apply to us.
- End
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- Nov 07, 2020
The struggle is always worthwhile, if the end be worthwhile and the means honorable; foreknowledge of defeat is not sufficient reason to withdraw from the contest.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is much to justify Turkey's reverence for Ataturk. He is the force that allowed Turkey to rise from the ashes of defeat and emerge as a vibrant new nation.
- President
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- Nov 07, 2020
Senator Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader in the Senate, said that Republicans' number one priority was the defeat of President Obama.
- American People
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- Nov 07, 2020